Associate Professor of Economics at Durham University. Buy my book here https://teapawt.net/t.co/1WMMdv8ke4
Durham, England
Joined April 2009
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Going to start a thread consisting of things that need improving...
1. Kitchen extractor fans.
Noisey and don't work very well. The relief I get whenever I switch it off is the only thing good about it.
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How Memory Works, by @daisychristo .
Great response across different platforms to the latest episode of The Amol Rajan Connection - out now on YouTube, Spotify. Apple and Amazon.
YouTube: youtu.be/Xcyc3LQkqjY?is=WTvp…
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3lc…
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Incredible detail about Chris Wickham from his Guardian obit theguardian.com/books/2026/o…
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By every measure, Opus 4.8 beats human experts as peer reviewers in a study of 124 Harvard social science papers covering a range from statistical analyses to formal models to qualitative work.
As academics, we need to figure out how to adapt the practice of science to AI, fast.
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100% this 👇. The irony of running academic work through Pangram and getting outraged by a high percentage is that you’re outsourcing your own judgment to AI. Your assessment is itself 100% AI-generated. We should use our own brains both to produce academic work (with AI assistance or not, your call) and to assess it. If you need Pangram to tell you that something is AI slop, that tells you everything you need to know about where we’re heading.
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🚨 New paper on AI and Copyright 🚨
It's easy to dismiss AI-written books 📚 as slop nobody buys. So, armed with full-text AI detection from @pangram, we studied self-published genre fiction books sold on Amazon from 2023 to 2026 March
Turns out Amazon is flooded with books with substantial AI text and these books are earning significant 💰💸 and most importantly, crowding out sales of non-AI books.
FWIW, a book doesn't need to be high quality to have a market impact. It just has to exist in the thousands, which Generative AI enables.
Joint w/ @dhillon_p (@UMich), @irisiris_l (@stonybrooku ) & Jane Ginsburg (@ColumbiaLaw)
(1/n) 🧵
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What should an open scientific paper look like in the AI age?
We made a demonstration project out of our paper on the childhood socioeconomic circumstances of the Nobel Laureates.
Please check it out and share. Details in 🧵 1/
I am somewhat reluctant with the whole rejoin EU thing. I do think there has been negative economic effects.
I also dont think there is any appetite to inact any of the "opportunities" from leaving.
But...
"If City weren’t there, the team that finished second would have won the league"
This isn't the only counterfactual and probably not even the best...
After doing these calculations for the relevant seasons where City won the league changes precisely nothing (lol). The team thet finished 2nd would still win. But...